as a dyi-er i re did my plastic gutters with metal from a local big box store and to connect the 10′ segments they have these metal (3″ or so) couplers( for lack of a better term). the inside of the coupler has a lip that can’t be bent down completely. i’ve put the ‘special’ caulk that the store sells with the gutter system and it leaks.
i’ve ‘slattered’ that clear sticky caulk on and it still leaks.
so, my question is there another caulk that might work better? OR, is there couplers for metal that don’t have a lip. the plasic ones didn’t seem to have this problem.
i just figured metal would be stronger as we have a ‘stand’ of 70′ needled trees by the house.
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I don't have gutters............so my help should be suspect.
Did you apply some of this caulk into the coupler's slot? Then butter the topside? I assume there's a lip up the back and front too. Again, did you fill that slot b/4 sliding them together?
thanks. no. just 'gooped' them on the inside after trying to bend thelip down as much as possible.
how do you keep the water from backflowing to the house. we have a 'daylight' basement
If you're asking how we keep the water out of our in the ground
1st floor (walkout also)..................built into the hill?
Well, we put the money in the ground.
With mostly locust and walnut-those tiny leaved with other stuff trees.....................
I put on good waterproofing, swailed the ground on the uphill side around the house, installed good collection in the stone backfill and ran it down the hill.
Now, people say-easy, you live on the hill. Well, don't they know it rains up the hill as well? Avoid it, collect it, and keep it moving.
Too late now but I have DIYed gutters on two homes now but didn't even come close to the bix box store. I just called the regular guys and asked them to bid seemless gutters run and laying on the ground. Both times they had no problem doing this and they left me everything I needed to install gutters and downspouts and they even put the sections down in the yard right underneath where they were to go so both of us knew they had everything the needed.
They say live and learn so there ya go.
well my neighbor gave me a reference and they wanted $900. we have an old retangular house 50 long so 100 feet of straight gutter - seemed a little high, but then we're on one income with a kid.
might end up with that idea....
thanks.
Yeah, seamless is the way to go. We had our house re-guttered close to 20 years ago (tore off builder-installed segmented gutters), and having seamless installed professionally actually worked out cheaper than DIY from what passed for a big box back then.